From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Mike Spencer  wrote:   
   >   
   > Javier  writes:   
   >   
   >> May I ask what is your reason to go back to console?   
   >> ...   
   >> Sometimes I have some reason for going back to the console, like when   
   >> X is non responsive and i want to kill an X program from the console,   
   >> but other than that, the console gets very little use nowadays.   
   >   
   > I use it rarely but it's one of those things tha's supposed to work   
   > "like we always done it"  but halfway  through bootup it becomes   
   > unusable.   
      
   That 'halfway' point is where the kernel takes over control of the   
   video hardware, and the kernel default is for a mode other than old   
   standard VGA 80x25 text mode.   
      
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